...is harshing my mellow, man. Lots of complaints. Few valid suggestions.I used to play a game called Eve Online. It's made by an Icelandic company called CCP. People complained a lot there too. In fact, we took to using CCP as an acronym for "Continuously Crying Playerbase." The very height of wit, I know. This place though. I think it takes the cake with whiners. To be sure, there are issues. I myself have griped about costs. Broken toons. Lackluster rewards for your efforts and whatnot. But I do try to temper my negativity. Maybe even throw a silver lining up in there now and then.The forums these days are sort of a downer. I'm not sure why I'm posting this. Slow day at the office, I guess. But it just struck me on this latest forum visit that most of the threads are all bad news lol

Then maybe it reflects on the job cg/ea is doing with it. Just a thought...

I understand this. But there's got to be a better way to organize and focus attention to various things that just a number of random "grrrr" threads. We need like...a voice. A place to focus rather than the current cacophony. I don't think the points get made as clearly when everyone's...everywhere all over the spectrum lol

"VeridianShakes;534767" wrote:I understand this. But there's got to be a better way to organize and focus attention to various things that just a number of random "grrrr" threads. We need like...a voice. A place to focus rather than the current cacophony. I don't think the points get made as clearly when everyone's...everywhere all over the spectrum lolSo a voice, like, from the devs? That would sure be nice.

Why don't you suggest something that EA did right then, just to inject some positivity? Oh nvm. There hasn't been any lately.Don't like the whining? Don't read the forums. Not exactly rocket science.

"VeridianShakes;534767" wrote:I understand this. But there's got to be a better way to organize and focus attention to various things that just a number of random "grrrr" threads. We need like...a voice. A place to focus rather than the current cacophony. I don't think the points get made as clearly when everyone's...everywhere all over the spectrum lolI get what you're saying, but the problem is that we as a player base don't have any option to do that. Anything resembling that gets shut down or merged into a 100 page mega thread that just gets swept under the rug. This is ea we're talking about. They do not care. That's not me being pessimistic or complaining. EA doesn't give a crap about it's consumers as long as a few whales keep the business model afloat. Look at sw battle front. That game got absolutely destroyed by fans and critics, but it has the sw name so it initially sold well. Now not even a year later, you can find it online for pennies. EA considered it a success because it pushed out units. Nothing changes. Like other posts on the forums right now, I believe it will take a lawsuit and loss of income before ea pulls their head out of their ... Btw the force events with ayala and kit were legit false advertising. "Not happy with it" LOL yea ok. They just didn't want to get sued. (Which they still can...)

This rampant level of apparent dissatisfaction...

Shaolin_Punk_66
Retired Hero
9 years ago
I personally think it's easy to feel like spending in these kinds of games entitles you to some kind of ownership. But according to iTunes, and probably EA / CG ToS, it doesn't. Still, that breeds some of the entitlement.

Then there's the amount of grinding players do (f2p or not), that when we get set back a little by a glitch, it 'hurts'. Honestly, it's just a game. That's the hardest thing for some of us to remember. Forums are a little animated today because we just had some big stuff go out. Of course it's nuts. It should calm down though. Things take time.

Our culture has nothing to do with patience.
binglingw
9 years ago
The game is still a lot of fun. The very fact that people are still complaining is a good thing. That means the players still care (vomit a little). But EA/CG need to step up and fix the problems.
In my software company or any companies I worked for, a live release like the 7/6 update is unthinkable. people get fired for that kind of bugs. heads will roll.
JMakoa
9 years ago
"JinnNu;535165" wrote:
The game is still a lot of fun. The very fact that people are still complaining is a good thing. That means the players still care (vomit a little). But EA/CG need to step up and fix the problems.
In my software company or any companies I worked for, a live release like the 7/6 update is unthinkable. people get fired for that kind of bugs. heads will roll.

And wallets will miraculously close up
izlix
9 years ago
"VeridianShakes;534767" wrote:
I understand this. But there's got to be a better way to organize and focus attention to various things that just a number of random "grrrr" threads. We need like...a voice. A place to focus rather than the current cacophony. I don't think the points get made as clearly when everyone's...everywhere all over the spectrum lol

That's precisely the problem. Everyone is all over the place because there are problems all over the place.

People are making posts about specific problems and the mods/devs say the posts fall all in the megathread & move/delete the post... Causing it to be a generalized complaint lost in a sea of other specific issues that are now also lost.

Good example is the force champions. They generalized that the community didn't like the event and shut it down... But the problem was the difficulty vs payout and cost of refresh vs payout. Easy fix would be to give the CPU lower stats. Even easier fix would be to increase the payout as little as 50%...

They don't care about the specifics. They just blanket problems to "solve" them
VeridianShakes
9 years ago
I do agree things tend to get blanketed. Lost in the mix of things. And that's no good in the long term. Reasonable things. Like reward vs effort tweaks. Toss us tastes of things if you want us to throw down money for the full meal. Let us decide for ourselves from a place of knowledge of what we'd be spending on rather than a three sentence synopsis on an update. And like I said earlier that whole "chance of" thing should go the way of the dodo when it comes to spending real money.

I feel they'd do much, much better if they let us decide to buy sun fac or echo or whoever at whatever star level we choose for a reasonable price per star rather than gamble away $500. Seems an easy thing to program.

But, I'm not an economist, or a programmer. I can put folks to sleep on an OR table and wake em up after but I can't tell this company how to best run their business. Or what it takes to make these changes. But I CAN tell you what I would spend money on and what I won't.

And I won't spend it gambling for pixels anymore lol
ugonnalose
9 years ago
Probably because people who have a problem are more likely to post a thread than people who have something good to say.
Speakeasy13
9 years ago
"Backdragon;535118" wrote:
The game isn't perfect, but I think CG / EA is doing their best and trying to improve.

EA? Improve? Is this your first video game ever? Grow up.
MrDeathGrips
9 years ago
"Darling_Ventress;535377" wrote:
"DarthHernia;535369" wrote:
"Backdragon;535118" wrote:
The game isn't perfect, but I think CG / EA is doing their best and trying to improve.

EA? Improve? Is this your first video game ever? Grow up.

You're telling someone to 'grow up' while posting on a forum for a kid's video game? We're all children here. Anyone over 12 years old that takes a game this seriously has developmental problems themselves.

Cmoooonnn. Youre kidding right? DV youre better than this! at the very least youve already known from day one, just judging by the language, that most forum goers are not 12.
NicWester
9 years ago
"VeridianShakes;534767" wrote:
I understand this. But there's got to be a better way to organize and focus attention to various things that just a number of random "grrrr" threads. We need like...a voice. A place to focus rather than the current cacophony. I don't think the points get made as clearly when everyone's...everywhere all over the spectrum lol

There is--it's the Feedback forum. The devs read that stuff and use it to inform future updates. Not a whole lot of people post there, however, because the devs don't comment in it. Also, most "feedback" people give in any game is for show. Folks post the most provokative thing they can in the most public place they can find so they get as many eyes on it as possible. It doesn't solve anything, but it scratches the attention-seeking itch.

There hasn't been a healthy video game forum for 10 years. Happy players know better than to read them. They were abandoned to trolls and haters a long time ago.
MrDeathGrips
9 years ago
"Darling_Ventress;535432" wrote:
"darkensoul;535412" wrote:
"Darling_Ventress;535399" wrote:
"RogueHS;535385" wrote:
"Darling_Ventress;535377" wrote:
"DarthHernia;535369" wrote:
"Backdragon;535118" wrote:
The game isn't perfect, but I think CG / EA is doing their best and trying to improve.

EA? Improve? Is this your first video game ever? Grow up.

You're telling someone to 'grow up' while posting on a forum for a kid's video game? We're all children here. Anyone over 12 years old that takes a game this seriously has developmental problems themselves.

Lol this game is not a kids game. I'd bet most of the Star Wars fan base is over the age of 30.

If a 30 year old reads 'D-i-ck and Jane' books, that does not qualify it as sophisticated literature.
The mechanics of this game are brain-dead simple. Don't flatter yourself. Its a kid's game.

That's some interesting logic you have there.

Tell me what's wrong with it.

Not sophisticated does not equal "for children". Thats a start.